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Death toll from Peru massacre attributed to Shining Path offshoot rises to 16 2 minutes read By Fernando Gimeno Lima, May 25 (EFE).- The death toll from a massacre attributed to remnants of the once-powerful Shining Path guerrilla group has climbed to 16, Peru’s military said Tuesday. The two latest victims of the early Monday mass killing were found at the crime scene after an anti-terrorism prosecutor had inspected the remote jungle area and ordered the removal of the remains, the Joint C...

Peru: Shining Path splinter group kills 14 in pre-election jungle massacre At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed by a splinter group of the Shining Path rebel group, in a brutal attack on a remote jungle hamlet, according to Peru’s military. Leaflets reportedly scattered at the site of Sunday’s massacre warned locals to boycott upcoming presidential elections next month and said anyone who voted for the rightwing candidate Keiko Fujimori would be considered a “trait...

The death toll of an attack in a remote, mountainous region of Peru has risen to 16, authorities said on Tuesday, as the country’s interim president vowed there would be “no impunity” for those responsible for the killings. The Peruvian authorities have blamed the deadly violence on a dissident faction of Shining Path, a Maoist movement that battled the government in the 1980s and 1990s. “We are doing all we can to deploy the police and the military in a way that we can efficiently comb...

RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL - An alleged attack by a column of the Shining Path terrorist group has left at least 18 dead in the province of Satipo, in the Junin region, in the jungle valley of the Apurimac, Ene, and Mantaro rivers (VRAEM), police sources confirmed Monday, May 24. According to Police Commander General Cesar Cervantes, the attack caused the death of at least ten men, six women, and two children in an area of bars and brothels near a bank of the Ene river in the area of San Miguel del...

Leftist Shining Path militants killed at least 14 people, including two children, in a remote region of Peru known for coca production and burned some of the bodies beyond recognition, the military said on Monday. Pamphlets encouraging Peruvians to refrain from voting in the June 6 presidential election were found at the site of Sunday's massacre, according to a statement from the joint command of Peru's Armed Forces. The military called the murders "an act of genocide" and...

Photo: ANDINA 13:43 | Lima, May. 24. General Commander of the National Police Cesar Cervantes on Monday confirmed the death of 18 people in a population center in Vizcatan Province, located in the Valley of Apurimac, Ene and Mantaro Rivers (VRAEM) area, which was allegedly caused by remnants of the terrorist organization known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path). "According to pamphlets found (in the area), which have been read and analyzed by agents of the Anti-Terrorism Directorate (Dircote),...

The killing, which comes weeks ahead of presidential elections, is one of the worst atrocities in Peru in decades.

More than dozen slain in Peru, allegedly by Shining Path Associated Press FacebookTwitterEmail LIMA, Peru (AP) — More than a dozen people were slain in a remote area of central Peru by suspected members of the Shining Path rebel group, just two weeks ahead of the presidential runoff election, authorities said Monday. Perus police chief, César Cervantes, told the local TV channel N that at least 18 people were killed, while the military said in a press release there were 14 victims. The killi...

By Marco Aquino LIMA (Reuters) - Leftist Shining Path militants killed at least 14 people, including two children, in a remote region of Peru known for coca production and burned some of the bodies beyond recognition, the military said on Monday. Pamphlets encouraging Peruvians to refrain from voting in the June 6 presidential election were found at the site of Sundays massacre, according to a statement from the joint command of Perus Armed Forces. The military called the murders an act of genoc...

At least 14 people, including two children, have been killed in a remote region of Peru known for coca production, the military said on Monday, less than two weeks before voters head to the polls for a presidential runoff. Peru’s police chief, César Cervantes, told local television channel N that at least 18 people were killed, while the military said in a statement there were 14 victims. “I strongly condemn the murders of these 14 people,” interim Peruvian President Francisco Sagasti tw...